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The West Indies cricket team toured Sri Lanka in November and December 2021 to play two Test matches. [1] [2] Originally scheduled to be played in October and November 2022, [3] the tour was brought forward to be played after the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. [4] The Test matches formed part of the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship.
Opening Sri Lanka's economy brought the country out of the economic turmoil Sri Lanka was facing as the result of the preceding closed statist economic policies. [13] Jayewardene felt compelled to look towards ASEAN to bolster the Sri Lankan economy because India's foreign policy rendered economic cooperation with India unfeasible.
The 2021 Four Nations Football Tournament (Sinhala: 2021 සිව් ජාතීන්ගේ පාපන්දු තරඟාවලිය), alternatively known as the Mahinda Rajapaksa Cup, was an international association football friendly tournament organised by Football Sri Lanka (FSL).
The Voice Sri Lanka is a singing competition reality television program from Sri Lanka, broadcast on Sirasa TV. It premiered on 21 November 2020, and has continued airing with yearly seasons ever since. [ 1 ]
Mobile numbers in Sri Lanka consist of 10-digits in the xxx zzzzzzz format where: "xxx" represents the mobile operator code when contacting a mobile number. All mobile operator codes begin with 07.
In February 2021, Sri Lanka's coach Mickey Arthur and batsman Lahiru Thirimanne returned positive COVID-19 tests. [5] This resulted in several media reports stating that the tour had been postponed. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] However, the following day, Cricket West Indies (CWI) announced their upcoming broadcast deal to show live cricket in the ...
In 2015, following the parliamentary election, the two major parties of Sri Lanka (the United National Party and Sri Lanka Freedom Party) signed a memorandum of understanding to form a national unity government, in an attempt to address and rectify major unresolved issues following the end of the country's 26-year long ethnic conflict.
By 2024, Sri Lanka re-entered the path of economic growth, with a renewed focus on sustainable development. Sri Lanka has met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving extreme poverty and is on track to meet most of the other MDGs, outperforming other South Asian countries. Sri Lanka's poverty headcount index was 4.1% by 2016.